Syracusan!

I just got back from a very entertaining production of The Comdey of Errors at the Old Globe. The play is mostly just one mistaken identity joke told over and over again, so I was happy to see all the ways the production had livened it up. Some things were simple: the opening narration to set the premise was illustrated with a Punch and Judy style puppet show, and there was a lot of slapstick and mad dashing about crammed in wherever it would fit. But other things make you really appreciate comic acting, and how it's distinct from simply having funny marterial. That same worn joke about identical Dromios and Antipholuses (Antipholi?) is funny over and over again, when told with the right tone or expression.